The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-07-28
washington Letter
From our regular correspondent.

- 1900 0NSh - - NAig ~Ot ACpfs
President and Mrs. Cleveland, have
returned from their pleasant tour Of
northern New York, and feeling all
the better for the delightful outing
and cordial reception throughout the
trip, but more especially, at the boy
hood home of the President, where his
old friends and neighbors eagerly
thronged about him, glad to honor the
man, who had risen, like meteor,
from the humblest to the prOudest and
greatest position on earth, and who
greeted each and all with good
word and kindly smile of recogni-
tiop,
/ learn that the Administration
regards with the liveliest satisfaction
the deliberations and nominations of
the Ohio Democrats, and, that the
President feels that his course has
been substantially endorsed.
The receipts OF the Postofice De-
partment tor the third quarter of the
last fiscal year were $l3O12, 487; ex-
penditures, 1922, sos; deficiency,
$26002l but the latter will perhaps
be reduced to about $1,000, by the
receipt from international money
orders. Acomparative statement OF
the business OF this Department for
first three quarters of the year 1885,
S7,show that the receipts have con.
stantly and largely increased and that
there has been corresponding de-
crease in the dehciency-so that it is
, very probable the Postohce Depart
: ment will be ON self.sustaining basis
in year or two,
The count of the cash and securities
in the Treasury which began two
months ago, incidental to II change of
Treasurers, has been completed and
+ found correct to n cent, with the ex-
, ceptiOn of a deficiency of$2 40, though
o a formal report will not be made till
next week
, In reply to a great number of in
quiries, the Commissioner of Pensions
Q replies, that, under the Mexican Pen
sion Act, pensions can be paid from
the date OF the passage of the Act,
Jan. Goth 1887, only when pensioners
were sixty-two years old previous to
= that date; in the exceptions to this
q rule, the payment will begin on the
day when the pensioner is 60 years OF
y age, unless in cases of dependence and
disability.
=. The Secretary of the Interior has
won additional claim to the admiration
OF the fair sex by the important ruling
70 that married woman have the right tc
enter and buy timber and stone lands
\ under the laws governing the sale Of
such lands in several of the States and
40 Territories.
There was no surprise in the In
IN terror Department when the resigna
~ ton of the chief clerk of the Paten
Office who is one of those so calleC
~ indispensable" Republicans, holdinl
Office under a Democratic Administra
ton, was announced, though tn
Washington newspapers either sup
pressed or we're profoundly ignoran
OF the real reason, which was tn,
Chief Clerks relation to the Bacon
defalcation it being the formers dut,
vi under the law OF the United States, t,
AZ examine the accounts of the financia
u clerk every month, and certify wheth
Vi es or not they are correct. And tn,
8 Chief Clerk regularly certified to TIN
oe correctness of the financial clerks &C
il counts, for four years-the latter bein,
IL a defaulter all of that time. And n,
We sooner is the chief clerk shown tn
~ door than he essays the difficult tasl
IL OF withdrawing" his corrupt associ
'ii ate in Office if in nothing more.